admin Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 Here's a link to the previous site on web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220331081551/https://forum.bmw5.co.uk 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan-uk Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 Might i suggest if people wanted to extract old how to's, project threads etc they had done to repopulate the new site that would incredibly helpful! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KitTheRam Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 (edited) There was me thinking it was all lost forever. Although a few of the links to my old threads do not work, is it still work in progress? Edited September 6, 2022 by KitTheRam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandip Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Web archive is a snapshot so unfortunately it cannot be edited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan-uk Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 But people can cut and paste old posts/ threads and repost here - just no way we can automate it and for us to do it would be a hurculean task Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr H Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 I've tried accessing the old site; get to the home page fine but when I try to open any topic I get an error message (page not available). Am I doing something wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan-uk Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Its only a screen shot of the site, not an active site some links might now work but i found if you go into the subsectiosn you can see things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyrt200 Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 I found my thread on all the work I did getting the G31 OE towing electrics working but it won’t open. I’ve still got all the pictures so I’ll just re-do the post when I have time. Is just posting in the technical section for your model the back place for how to guides? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 2 hours ago, Andyrt200 said: Is just posting in the technical section for your model the back place for how to guides? Yes please Andy👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopfjaeger Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 Hi, everyone, can I ask what happenened with the old site? I joined in 2020 and found it useful. Some members were really helpful. I didn't use the site for a while and when I went back, it was gone, suddenly part of Facebook. I don't use social media, so looked to see what else was available. Accessing a little used tablet yesterday, I clicked on the link from the old site and voila, a bit of deja view and rejoined. So will this site stick around, or is there likely to be a repeat of whatever happened to the old site? Thanks in advance, if anyone can clarify what happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 @Kopfjaeger simply put, a planned upgrade did not go to plan and we were unable to restore the site from the backup that was taken prior to the upgrade. We have put steps in place to make sure that can’t happen again. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopfjaeger Posted September 10, 2022 Share Posted September 10, 2022 Thanks for the clarification. I'm glad it wasn't politics.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grace Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 On 07/09/2022 at 22:39, duncan-uk said: Its only a screen shot of the site, not an active site some links might now work but i found if you go into the subsectiosn you can see things. Just an alert to everyone that the snapshot of the old site is incomplete. For example, the Technical > E39 1996-2004 sub-forum shows 1028 pages of topics: However, you can only progress 11 pages deep until Wayback stops and says it hasn't archived that content. Checking Wayback to see how many of the sub-forum pages (needed to access those 25k topics) were actually archived, and we only have 318 of the 1028 with many being alternate sorting order etc. meaning we have a lot less – and this is just for one sub-forum. --- Is there a possibility that we could have restored a read-only version of the old site at archive.bmw5.co.uk or old.bmw5.co.uk? Or at the very least a torrent of the backup (with sensitive user/admin data stripped out) for the more driven of us to trawl through and recreate DIYs and info anew? Have many bookmarks and tabs that are now "Sorry, we could not find that!" without an archive backup; like many others, I'm sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recoil Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 On 18/09/2022 at 08:42, Grace said: Just an alert to everyone that the snapshot of the old site is incomplete. For example, the Technical > E39 1996-2004 sub-forum shows 1028 pages of topics: However, you can only progress 11 pages deep until Wayback stops and says it hasn't archived that content. Checking Wayback to see how many of the sub-forum pages (needed to access those 25k topics) were actually archived, and we only have 318 of the 1028 with many being alternate sorting order etc. meaning we have a lot less – and this is just for one sub-forum. --- Is there a possibility that we could have restored a read-only version of the old site at archive.bmw5.co.uk or old.bmw5.co.uk? Or at the very least a torrent of the backup (with sensitive user/admin data stripped out) for the more driven of us to trawl through and recreate DIYs and info anew? Have many bookmarks and tabs that are now "Sorry, we could not find that!" without an archive backup; like many others, I'm sure. I'm agree with you. I was upgrading my E39 with a CP3 + Rail and some else and I cannot end the upgrade. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miami Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 I used to go by miami on the old site. Im a software engineer by trade. I can look at extracting the data from the last snapshot you have of the old site if it is still available? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan-uk Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 Thanks for the offer Miami, we've had a couple of people try what you suggest without any luck, drop sandip a PM if you think there are any other options (he knows whats what) but sadly i think we exhausted that avenue 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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